Name: Halloween Surprise Inside Cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 3/4 cup butter at room temperature; 1 cup sugar; 1/2 tsp. baking powder; 1/4 tsp. salt; 1 egg; 2 egg yolks; 2 tsp. vanilla; 2 1/2 cups AP flour; 1/8 tsp. cinnamon; Orange food coloring; 5 oz. Black and Orange nonpareil sprinkles (you may need more or less nonpareils)

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Don’t let the ghouls and goblins scare you away from this Halloween. Give them these deliciously spooky Halloween Surprise Inside Cookies and they will become your best friends.

Halloween Cookies

These cookies have a colorful surprise middle layer that adds some extra fun when eating these little gems.

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If you follow One Hot Oven you know I love these Surprise Inside Cookies because you can make them in so many different colors and flavors to match all the seasons, holidays and events.

Today’s Halloween cookies have a cinnamon flavored mid-layer that is tinted dark orange and is surrounded by a rich buttery cookie. The non-pareil mix is a Halloween favorite of orange and black. It’s just a bit spooky.

What are nonpareil sprinkles?

Also known as hundreds-thousands, nonpareils or non-pareils’s are tiny little balls of colorful decorative confectionery made of sugar and starch. The great thing about using these sprinkles is all the colors you can buy. For instance, the orange and black mix I am using today and the ever-popular rainbow mix. You can buy single colors and mix and match to your liking.

Get your sprinkles ready and let’s make some cookies

Another fun idea is to make these cookies candy corn colors of orange, yellow and white. Like I said the possibilities are endless.

Need sprinkles, of course, you do and you can find them right here. You will need two bottles to make sure you have enough sprinkles.

Here is your cookie ingredient list

Butter
Sugar
Eggs
Vanilla
Flour
Baking Soda
Salt
Cinnamon
Orange Food Color
Orange and black nonpareil sprinkles

How to make Halloween Cookies

There are several steps to make these cookies, but I promise they are simple.

First, make the dough measure out 3/4 cup and tint this dough orange and add cinnamon. Now roll this dough into 25 – 1″ balls and roll the other dough into larger balls using about a tablespoon of dough.

Here is the fun part of making these cookies. Flatten the larger dough ball then put the smaller dough ball on top of that and fold the dough around the smaller ball. That’s it, is super easy. Just don’t tell anyone you put that surprise in the cookie.

Right after you roll the two dough balls together immediately roll the balls into the nonpareils so they will stick to the dough. This part is super duper important because those nonpareils will not stick if you let the dough balls sit for a while. Trust me on this one.

Are you excited to see the baked cookies, here they are, baked and ready to serve? No one knows what’s lurking inside the cookies.

Baked Halloween Surprise Inside Cookies

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Halloween Surprise Inside Cookies

There's a delicious little surprise inside every bite of these colorful buttery cookies.

Course Cookies

Cuisine Dessert

Keyword Christmas Cookies, Halloween cookies,

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Servings

Calories 179kcal

Author Jere' at One Hot Oven

Equipment

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg
2 egg yolks
2 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups AP flour
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
Orange food coloring
5 oz. Black and Orange nonpareil sprinkles you may need more or less nonpareils

Instructions

In a large bowl mix the butter until fluffy.
Add the sugar, baking powder and salt; mix until combined
Add the egg, egg yolks, and vanilla until combined, scraping sides of the bowl.
Mix in the flour until combined, forming a soft dough.
Remove 3/4 cup of the dough to a small bowl and add the orange food coloring and cinnamon. Mix well to incorporate
Measure out 1 tablespoon of butter dough and make 25 balls with the dough
Using a teaspoon roll the orange cinnamon flavored dough into 25 1" balls.
Flatten the butter flavored dough and place an orange-tinted dough ball in the center and mold the dough around it to make a round ball.
Roll the ball in the nonpareil sprinkles and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Bake for 01-12 minutes at 375 degrees.

Notes

For the food coloring, start by adding a drop, then add more as needed.

Measure out all the dough balls to make sure you have 25 of each. If you have too many or not enough of one just pinch some dough off another dough ball to make 25 of each.

After you roll the two dough balls together, roll the ball in you have several times to warm up the dough to get a bit sticky and immediately roll in the nonpareils.

If you let the dough balls sit and then roll in the nonpareils the dough won't be sticky enough.